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SadDoragon, I apologize for the delay. Been a rough month for me, and I was not able to get much testing done. Let me see what I can do tonight when I get home. I'll get back to you as soon as I have some results.

CookeeMonster, because I've always been a big fan of cookie monster when I was a child. He was always so silly and loved the cookies. I have cookies after lunch almost every day. Oddworld was one of my favorite childhood games too. I loved that game!

Unless you're doing something crazy like Uncompressed video editing or 4K video editing, I don't think it is worth it, especially due to the price. Currently using 2 x 1TB 840 Evo SSDs, that I picked up during Black Friday deals for around $700, and I run it in RAID 0. Couldn't be happier, and I don't need more. I used to do a lot of video editing and doing work with a lot of uncompressed HD videos, and I could get away with 4x 15k SAS drives that pushed roughly 400-500mb/s sequentially. Nowadays a single SSD can do 550Mb/s, so putting them in RAID puts you at an advantage. Though keep in mind that putting SSDs in a RAID 0 configuration also has it's disadvantages, as some controllers will disable their features in RAID. If you want all those features, and an all in one package through PCIe, and need the cutting edge performance, then I would consider the Intel 750 NVMe SSD.

Hi SadDoragon, I'll be happy to run some benchmarks for you at overclocked settings. I'll also try to push the card a bit further and see where we can get. Give me a couple of days and I'll reply back here with the results.

Last I heard, 16 children were on-board returning from a school trip or something.

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PSU should be fine. Lot of people love to get over the board PSUs with crazy Wattage. I used to do that as well, until I had a system that was running three GTX 580s in 3-way SLI without any problems on a Seasonic 650W PSU. I'm not kidding. The PSU was pushed to its limits but had that system working without any problems for over a year, before I made a change on my graphics cards and went down to a single GTX 690 (Dual-GPU card). 800+ PSU should be plenty for your setup. Your two GTX 780Tis are using roughly the same or slightly more than the two Titan Xs.

You should be fine. I have a GTX 580 laying around with 1.5GB of VRAM and it plays games just fine even maxed out. Maybe not the latest games, but that's a different story. I used to use 1.5GB on Surroung Setup (5760x1080) with some AA enabled, and worked just fine. Also GTX 760 comes with 2GB of VRAM, so that's a bit more than what you have accounted for and should be just fine.

Dragoon20005 is correct. Different series will have different lettering, but X is usually the Extreme line of motherboards, while the Z is the High-End line for consumers, and H is the entry-level. For example, for the 6th series, P line of motherboards were the high end like the Z is in the 8th and 9th series.

The CPU temperature looks a bit high if these are idle temperatures. I would check to see if your heatsink is full of dust and if it can be cleaned, and perhaps even re-seating the CPU heatsink with some new thermal paste. GPU temps should be higher if it is under load, but for idle, it sounds about right.

Generally, a new chipset comes with newer features. Don't quote me on this, but if I remember correctly Intel's 7th series chipsets were the first to come with USB 3.0 support and Thunderbolt. Not saying that USB 3.0 was not available before, but it was most likely an add-on chip on the motherboard from another vendor. Usually all the ports, features, PCI-E lanes, CPU socket type and CPU support along with Memory type comes with different chipsets. The higher you go, the more features you will have. Intel's 9th series chipsets is the one now that came out with M.2 SSD support. So a general rule of thumb, the higher the number, the newer the board. Also within the numbering say 9th series, you have H, Z and X series. H is usually entry level with the basics, Z is the high-end motherboards designed for overclockers and high-end users, and X is for the enthusiasts with the Extreme processors.

Sorry for the delay guys. Yes, like Alij said, the card won't go below 60% on the fan speed, but I was able to measure the rpm with MSI Afterburner and it showed 1440RPM at 60%. I let furmark running for an hour and came back with the temperatures roaming around 63C in a 24C ambient house temperature, and the fan speed was only at 65% and 1550RPM. Such a small difference in fan speed that you cannot even tell the difference in noise between the two levels. With all that said, I don't have any measuring tools right now for noise, but I can tell you this. When I built my system, I used a Phantom 820 case from NZXT. I loaded it up with quiet fans from Noctua and Zalman. Same for my CPU cooler. What I did next was used the built in Fan controller and adjusted each fan one by one to still spin and blow air, but get rid of all motor noise and air movement noise. With all that when I turn on my system, you cannot hear anything running besides the hard drive spinning up. Seriously that quiet even with the side panel off. I do have my case under the table though. With the ZOTAC GTX 970 card, you do hear the system starting up because when the system boots the card goes to 100% fan speed, but will return back to 60% right after it posts. at 60%, you cannot hear the card, unless you come close to it with your head, and at 65% you may hear a super duper slight air movement noise, but no motor noise or anything like that. Hope this is helpful.

I'll try to figure this out for you later today once I am at home. What exactly do you mean about how a card is installed? Could you please elaborate on that? I don't see any problems with the design, and SLI configuration would work as well.

Hi GoodBytes, Thank you for moving the thread. I took those photos with my Galaxy S4 and ended up just brightening them up a bit due to the auto exposure in the S4 camera making everything too dark. Also, thank you for the kind welcome.